It would be an understatement to say that Sri Lanka is a country beset with acute crises on political, economic and societal fronts. It is probably the worst peace-time crisis faced by Sri Lanka since the 1950s, largely a case of the ‘chickens (of past mistakes) coming home to roost’....
The last King of Jaffna was a Sinhala-Buddhist By H. L. D. Mahindapala Part of the crisis we are facing today was caused by either deliberately hiding the realities of history, or by political activists distorting it to suit expedient politics and partisan ideologies. Distorted history indeed played a central ...
It is very difficult for a weekly column to write on a topic in instalments as it has to comment on current topics as well. Recently it has become a common phenomenon to observe people coming to the roads and blocking them, setting fire to tyres and making mayhem against...
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